KenDckey
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http://pressreleasegold.com/09/04/06.htm
September 4, 2006
On August 31, the California legislature passed a bill establishing the most extensive carbon dioxide (CO2) emission controls yet in the United States. The law requires a 25 percent reduction in state CO2 emissions by 2020, with the first major controls taking effect in 2012. The California Air Resources Board, the agency that enforces the state’s air pollution controls, will be the main authority in establishing emission targets and noncompliance penalties for the law, which also allows for business incentives to reach the goals.
Several northeastern U.S. states signed a regional agreement to reduce CO2 emissions in December of 2005 but their target would reduce emissions by only some 24 million tons. The California mandate, which aims to cut emissions to their 1990 level, will result in cuts of some 174 million tons.
Opponents worry the new law will hurt California businesses and actually contribute to global warming by raising compliance costs to prohibitive levels. "If our manufacturers leave, whether for North Carolina or China, and they take their greenhouse gases with them, we might not have solved the problem but exacerbated it instead," warns Allan Zaremberg of the California Chamber of Commerce.
Well California has just about killed all the road construction, new construction and home repairs. Especially if the work involves concrete or employees over 500. I just talked to my son who lives in the Central Valley. The state Air Resources Board is closing down construction activities involving concrete because it Off Gasses CO2. They also refused to allow some company to move into Bakersfield because they didn’t have an environmental impact study on the 700 new jobs there were going to bring in. I looked the ARB site and they sued the manufactures of Liquid Nail because it off gassed polutants. They worried about the dairy cows flatuating even though they eat debris that would otherwise be placed into landfills to produce CO2 and methane. My son said that road repairs and construction will come to a near standstill because of this law. They are also worried about the farmers because plowing releases methane.
The law was targeting automobiles, but in true political fashion they forgot to limit its impact so it applies to everything.
Good Luck California.
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